St Ives manager Ricky Marheineke has told his team that they have to stop chasing games after their 2-2 draw against Frome in the Evo-Stik League Southern, Premier Division.

The Saints’ recent habit of conceding the first goal continued when they found themselves 2-0 down at half time with Sam Teale and George Miller getting Frome’s goals.

However, a change to a more attacking formation, with Marheineke deploying a back three, enabled Charlie De’Ath to pull one back before Josh Dawkin grabbed the equaliser in the 93rd minute.

Marheineke said: “Success at any level is built on how many goals you concede. If you don’t concede you give yourself a good chance of winning and in recent weeks we’ve been conceding too many goals as a team and it has to stop.

“We have to make sure we give ourselves a better chance of winning by trying to score the first goal in games because in recent weeks it’s seemed that we have to do something different to try and get back into games rather than the other team having to do so.

“You’ve got to be happy, though. I’m disappointed we only got the point as we deserved all three, but when you’re 2-0 down you have to be happy with the point.”